For nearly a decade, Silent Hill existed only in our restless dreams, with Konami refusing to finance any new projects and not even facilitating the rerelease...
Horror has always been a matter of perspective. The maniac with a knife just isn’t as intimidating when he’s facing off against a SWAT team, and...
The Resident Evil franchise is responsible for some of the most chilling moments in interactive media, forcing players to confront man-eating biohazards since the mid 90s....
In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Colin Minihan’s alien abduction thriller, Extraterrestrial! At one point, it can be argued that the Vicious...
Memorable characters were always the heart of Mortal Kombat. Sure, the fighting mechanics are engaging and the lore behind the eponymous tournament is goofy fun, but...
Mortal Kombat has always boasted in-depth fighting mechanics and impressive graphics (be it via painstakingly digitized actors or modern-day HD renders). That being said, there’s no...
With dozens of shows like What We Do in the Shadows and Chucky representing our favorite genre on the small screen, there’s no denying that we’re...
Content Warning: Suicide It may not be one of Stephen King’s most popular stories, but The Mist is still a surprisingly influential piece of genre fiction....
Since the dawn of genre cinema, horror movies have been thrilling audiences with gruesome death scenes at the hands of monsters and madmen. Over time, filmmakers...
In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Grégory Levasseur’s Egyptology-based Found Footage flick, The Pyramid. Acclaimed director Alexandre Aja first rose to notoriety...
Axes, machetes and chainsaws – oh my! certain objects will forever be associated with the horror genre despite having completely normal uses in real life. This...
Bigger isn’t always better when it comes to the horror genre. Sure, a larger and more elaborate follow-up to a horror property can sometimes result in...
King Kong has the rare honor of being one of few Universal Monsters that weren’t adapted from any existing media, having been created exclusively to terrify...
The dawn of the millennium saw a preference for more grounded horror stories, with shifting cultural sensibilities leading audiences to gravitate towards more down-to-earth scares rather...
In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing Burr Steers’ underrated adaptation, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. She may not have been a best-selling...
Epistolary storytelling has been immersing readers in fiction since the very dawn of literature. Using simulated letters, diaries and other documents to craft complex tales with...
Nearly every culture has come up with some variation of the vampire myth. From ancient Romanian storytellers sharing cautionary tales about the shapeshifting Strigoi to modern-day...
In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing Paul W.S. Anderson’s 2008 remake, Death Race! Loosely based on Ib Melchior’s short story The Racer,...
Even non-gamers are aware of the massive cultural impact that 1996’s Tomb Raider had on media. Not only did Eidos Interactive’s iconic release revolutionize adventure narratives...
Any fan of the pulpy genre publications of the 40s and 50s will tell you that comic-books have always had a love affair with horror. Unfortunately,...
There was a time when it was more likely for a successful foreign film to be remade in English than see a proper release in America....
In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing the Strause Brothers’ controversial sequel, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem. Despite fans clamoring for a live-action incarnation...
There’s no discussing film history without bringing up Stop-Motion Animation. After all, isn’t simulating movement through a succession of incrementally different images a primitive form of...
In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing Paul W.S. Anderson’s ambitious crossover, Alien vs Predator. At first glance, Alien vs Predator sounds like...
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